Doctors at AIIMS Bhopal successfully removed a parasitic twin from a three-year-old girl's skull and neck in a complex surgery. According to news reports, the toddler is now recovering well. According ...

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific America ...

A girl has relearned how to walk, talk and swallow after undergoing an operation rarely carried out on children, in which doctors stored part of her skull in her stomach. Ellie Morris-Davies ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex ...

EUGENE, Ore. - A group of families are celebrating progress made in getting human skull fragments found in an extremely rural area of Lane County DNA tested after 20 months of waiting. Parrish Bryson ...

All dogs are pretty cute, but there's something extra sweet about the dogs who give out major teddy bear vibes. This is common with toy mixes; their tiny size plus furry faces seem to combine so ...

The 18-year-old lifts his curly brown hair to flash a long, red scar on the right side of his head, above his ear, where a piece of his skull is gone. The missing bone fragment has left a dent in ...

Air pockets have been discovered in the bones of an Alvarezsauridae skeleton for the first time, indicating pneumaticity previously unseen in this dinosaur family. Found in Argentina's Allen ...

A dent in the head often looks like a depression or irregular spot in your skull. It doesn't always cause symptoms and may develop over time; for example, cranial sutures (seams) that close up the ...

The nasal bones are two wedged-shaped bones that make up the bridge of your nose. They come together at a rigid fibrous joint, forming the thickest part of the nose. Trauma to the face often involves ...